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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Christchurch in New Zealand

Posted by admin on August 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -43.5202S, 172.6992WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Christchurch in New Zealand on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 172.6992 East, latitude -43.5202 South, depth = 10 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:20:01 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bd1h. Id of event: us7000bd1h. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/08/20 / 2020-08-26 00:20:01 / August 26, 2020 @ 12:20 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kaiapoi, Christchurch. Epicenter of the event was 6 km (3 miles) from Christchurch (c. 363 900 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Kaiapoi (c. 10 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km ENE of Christchurch, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 172.6992° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -43.5202° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km ENE of Christchurch, New Zealand Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-26 00:20:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-26 00:40:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 141 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.188 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000bd1h Id of event.
Event Code 7000bd1h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bd1h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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